Hope this is the correct forum. This is basically my first post to this site, although I've been using the site for a long time. Using the great instructions and tips from this site I've been pretty successful making first DVD backups and now Blu-ray discs. Many thanks to all.
I've finally found a subject that I feel is worth submitting a post on. I have a DVD from England (PAL) that I could play on my computer but not any of the Blu-ray players I have. From the searches that I did on this site, it seemed that I was faced with either buying a new player for the disc (out of the question) or to follow some convoluted instructions that most of you feel are not worth the trouble. Well, I tried following the complicated and confusing instructions I found, and the end result was a mess. After several hours all I had was a worthless disc (the first coaster I've made in a very long time). There was no sound at all and only a black screen. I was about to give up, but then I thought of something to try.
I've been using AVStoDVD for quite a while to convert video files I've downloaded off the net, and I thought maybe I could use it to convert my disc. Many of the files I download are from England and are PAL, so it made sense to me to try AVStoDVD. I had ripped the disc to my computer with DVD Decrypter and I then loaded the VOB files into MPEG Video Wizard. Using MPEG Video Wizard I converted the files to a MPEG file. I then loaded the MPEG file into AVStoDVD and just a couple of clicks later, I had an NTSC DVD of my movie. The whole process took well under an hour. My main concern was that the audio would be screwed up but the sound was properly synchronized throughout the movie.
There might be faster and better ways of converting the ripped VOB files to a format that I could then use in AVStoDVD than by using MPEG Video Wizard, but it was a program that I had used before and that I already had. In any event, it was a relatively easy task, and I thought it might be worth mentioning on this forum.
Again, I would like to thank everyone who contributes to this site. It has made what would otherwise seem like an impossible task relatively easy.
Rick Johnson
I've finally found a subject that I feel is worth submitting a post on. I have a DVD from England (PAL) that I could play on my computer but not any of the Blu-ray players I have. From the searches that I did on this site, it seemed that I was faced with either buying a new player for the disc (out of the question) or to follow some convoluted instructions that most of you feel are not worth the trouble. Well, I tried following the complicated and confusing instructions I found, and the end result was a mess. After several hours all I had was a worthless disc (the first coaster I've made in a very long time). There was no sound at all and only a black screen. I was about to give up, but then I thought of something to try.
I've been using AVStoDVD for quite a while to convert video files I've downloaded off the net, and I thought maybe I could use it to convert my disc. Many of the files I download are from England and are PAL, so it made sense to me to try AVStoDVD. I had ripped the disc to my computer with DVD Decrypter and I then loaded the VOB files into MPEG Video Wizard. Using MPEG Video Wizard I converted the files to a MPEG file. I then loaded the MPEG file into AVStoDVD and just a couple of clicks later, I had an NTSC DVD of my movie. The whole process took well under an hour. My main concern was that the audio would be screwed up but the sound was properly synchronized throughout the movie.
There might be faster and better ways of converting the ripped VOB files to a format that I could then use in AVStoDVD than by using MPEG Video Wizard, but it was a program that I had used before and that I already had. In any event, it was a relatively easy task, and I thought it might be worth mentioning on this forum.
Again, I would like to thank everyone who contributes to this site. It has made what would otherwise seem like an impossible task relatively easy.
Rick Johnson